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and returned later to see how it was getting on. It was swimming about 

 and feeding quite happily. I was unable to find any reason for its apparent 

 tameness. The weather previously had not been rough, so there was no 

 reason for exhaustion. I examined it carefully but could find no injury nor 

 was it ill nourished and from the way it was feeding later on it did not 

 seem distressed in any way. It occurred to me thab this strange behaviour 

 in a wild bird might prove of interest to your readers, so send it to you. 



Bikchington-on-Ska, Kent, J, E. M. BOYD, m.c, 



20th October 1919. Majok, R.A.M.C. 



No. IX.— THE BLUE-BREASTED QUAIL {EXCALFACTORIA 

 CHINENSIS) AT MIRZAPUR. 



Mr. H. Branford of Mirzapore has just sent me for identification the skin 

 of a small quail which he shot out of sugarcane, 4 feet high at Mirzapure, on 

 17th July 1919. It proves to be a male of the blue-breasted quail {Ex- 

 calfactoria cJimensis). As Mr. Branford states that in 23 years shooting 

 in the locality he has not previously met with the species, and as Mirzapore 

 appears somewhat out of its range, as given in Blanford and Gates' work 

 you may care to insert this record in the Journal. 



Jhang, HUGH WHISTLER, f.z.s., 



31st July 1919. Indian Police. 



No. X.— BIRDS OF DIFFERENT SPECIES NESTING IN COMPANY. 



The frequency with which I have found nests of different species in the 

 same tree rather surprised me. Dewar has, I think, noted in one of his books 

 that the Oriole often builds in company with the Black Drongo and it must 

 very often be the attractive presence of this excellent watchman that 

 accounts for others choosing the same site for nesting purposes. 



On several occasions I have found three or more nests belonging to 

 different species in one tree and mention three cases. 



19th June : A mango tree of small size contained, 20 feet up, a nest of 

 the Black Drongo with four white eggs ; 5 ft. higher up was a nest of the 

 Southern Green Pigeon with two eggs ; and slightly higher and to one side 

 was the nest of a Red Turtle Dove with one egg. 



20th June : In an ordinary sized mango were first of all a Red-vented 

 Bulbul's nest containing two eggs, then a little higher a Jungle Babbler's 

 with three eggs, then a S. Green Pigeon's with two eggs and finally a Black 

 Drongo's containing two eggs. 



7th July : A mango tree was the choice of a S. Green Pigeon (2 eggs), 

 below it of a Black Drongo (3 eggs) and 10 ft. from the ground of a Red- 

 vented Bulbul (2 young birds). 



I took the Green Pigeons' eggs as they were of an unusual shape. By 

 the 15th the Drongos had hatched out and there was another nest of a 

 Green Pigeon with one egg. 



LucKNow, IQth August 1919. G. O. ALLEN, i.c.s. 



No. XI.— THE RED TURTLE— DOVE {(ENOPEPELIA T. 

 TRANQUEBARICA) IN UNAO, U. P. 



With reference to the notes on this bird on pp. 157 & 581 of Vol. XXIII, 

 I had noticed it in Unao in January 1914 often feeding along with the In- 

 dian Ring — Dove but 1 have no note of ever having seen many of them. 



